GAMING BREACHES

New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24303, 18 June 1942, Page 2

GAMING BREACHES

PUBLIC WORKS CAMP FOURTEEN MEN FINED (0.C.) PATiMERSTON NTH., Wednesday The sequel to a raid on the Public Works can!}) at Linton 011 June 11 was heard in the Palmerston North Court, when 14 men were lined on various charges. Detective-Sergeant Meiklejohn prosecuted. William Edward Allowav pleaded guilty to charges of being a bookmaker and with rising a hut as a common gaming house. The detective-sergeant stated that a constable had entered the camp in plain clothes, and had made bets with defendant, in addition to taking doubles. When the police party arrived in the hut a game of crown and anchor was in progress. Defendant had £52 15s in his possession, and the game was known as the "hard school" 011 account of the high stakes. Some of the men had lost all of their wages in one night. Mr. Rowe said Alloway had conducted the game for the amusement of the men in a camp where there was a dearth of entertainment. No big sums had been lost. A fine of £25 was imposed on the first charge and £lO on the second. Albert Strong was charged with keeping the premises known as the men's wash-house as a gaming house, and pleaded guilty through Mr. Ongley. It was stated that this was a smaller "school." the stakes lieing much lower, usually from threepence to 2s 6d. A fine of £lO was imposed. Twelve men found on the premises were fined £2 each.

RAGS FOR AIR FORCE SUGGESTION OF WASTE (0.C.) CHItISTCILURCH. Wednesday "It appears to me that there is a tremendous amount of waste going on with regard to this matter of clean rags for the Air Force," said Mr. G. M. Hall at a meeting of the Canterbury Reclamation Board. "I suppose when the rags are dirty, they throw them away and get new ones." Mr. Hall suggested that the rags should be laundered, and that their period of utility might thereby be lengthened. The secretary of the board. Mr. John Stewart, remarked that Mr. Hall might bo doing the Air Force an injustice, as the board bad no definite information on what course the Air Force was adopting to conserve supplies of clean rags. About 10 months ago, said Mr. Stewart, the board bad supplied the Air Force with six and a-half tons of rags, and be had been very surprised to learn that the supply had been almost exhausted.

HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT

SHORTAGE OF SHEETING (0.C.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Wednesday Inability to provide equipment for a 30-bed emergency hospital at Kaponga pending tl'j arrival of supplies from England was advised by the Taranaki Hospital Board in a letter received by the liawei'a Hospital Hoard. "The board is having great difficulty at the present time in supplying requirements of sheeting and blankets for its own emergency hospitals," said the letter, "and it does appear that until further supplies of sheeting arrive from overseas we will not have any on hand that we could release for Kaponga." "We have played our part," commented the chairman of the Hawera board, Mr. A. L. Campbell, and 110 further action was taken.

CONTROL OF BUILDING (0.C.) HAMILTON, Wednesday A Waikato committee lias been appointed by the Commissioner of Defence Construction, Mr. J. Fletcher, to control building in the area extending from Mercer to Taumarunui.

babV falls in fire Severe burns to both logs were suffered by Trove Ruby Adams, aged 20 months, the infant daughter of Mr. J. S. Adams, of 66 Trafalgar Street, Onehunga, when she fell into a firo at her parents' home yesterday. She was admitted to the Auckland Hospital.